"Don't just view me as an actor."

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Actor, College, Eye, Theatre

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Fun, Want

"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Actor, First

"An actor has to embody a role."

Taylor Hackford, American Director

Actor,

"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

Actor, Disney, Tears

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Actor, Nerves

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

Christopher Judge, American Actor

Actor, Mind

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Space

"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

Actor, Actors, Today

Explore more quotes by Terrence Howard

"And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula."

Work

"As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm."

Dream

"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good."

Right

"I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family."

Family

"The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this."

Mistake

"I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job."

Business

"I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can."

Being

"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."

Mankind

"The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish."

Difference

"Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue."

Time